Police Search for Uninvited Guest, Traffic Cones, Patio Furniture

Fairfax City residents reached out to police last week to catch a strange, unknown visitor and to help find their stolen cell phones, traffic cones and patio furniture.

A Fairfax Square Apartments resident contacted police after spotting a strange man looking into ground level apartment windows Friday night. The suspect, a 240-pound standing just over six feet tall with a shaved head and goatee, left before police arrived. He was reportedly wearing a dark-colored t-shirt and jean shorts.

Fairfax police are looking for a cell phone missing from the Fairfax County Juvenile Probation Office. The cell phone's owner told police it had been taken from her desk sometime on September 1.

A Woodland Drive man told police that someone threw a bottle, hitting his vehicle which was parked in his driveway between 11 p.m. September 1 and 7 the next morning.

A man contacted police after unknown person(s) took a traffic cone from his driveway in the 3700 block of University Drive. The incident took place sometime between 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday morning.

Police are searching for patio furniture taken from the 3900 block of Lyndhurst Drive sometime after 7:30 a.m. on Friday.

Vandals targeted a street sign on Kenmore and University drives over the weekend. A citizen told police at 5:35 p.m. on September 11 that someone had pulled the sign out of the ground, damaging it.